[240103.30 ch`Rihan...Sometime Midafternoon... ]
Donalh tr`Rhagarokk stands on a hill, over looking most of the encampment, Vyynd nearby. Rylan climbs the hill and asks, "Well, did it work? Did au locate the wort...I mean, tr`Sorek?"
"We'll find out in a sec..." Rhagarokk answers before taping a line open to the engineer, "Rhagarokk to Tacrun...have that power ready for me?"
tr`Hunrok's voice floats back through, "Power is ready and waiting, rekkhai!"
Rhagarokk grins and orders Tacrun, "Alright then, get out here....powering it up now..." Hearing this, Tacrun heads out towards the hill where the Leih is, as Rhagarokk opens his multicorder which connects to the ship's computer, activating the personnel location sensors.
Several seconds pass as the multicorder begins to beep, then zeros in on a location. "Got it!" the Leih announces, "3.2 miles east of the village..." he turns towards Vyynd, "Ready?"
Vyynd stands looking up at the sky, his hair flying back, as he answers, "Ie...let's roll..."
Tossing Vyynd a weapon that almost looks like two distruptor pistols grafted together, the Leih offers, "Here, au can probably use this...I've got my..." he pauses as his hand fell to where his sword used to be, "Oh, I've got weapons." he covers, "Every-io else armed?"
Ry nods and lays a hand on his pistol, trying not to crack a smile at the Leih's missing kaleh. "Ie, I'm armed....let's go hunting."
Vyynd, who had caught the tossed over weapon, quickly examines it, "This fire *normal* pulses?" he asks.
"It fires normal pulses," Donalh grins, "among other things....and it also fires twice at once. Io trigger with ninte forefinger, and the other with ninte pinky." he turns to the approaching engineer, "Au ready for this.... Erien?"
Vyynd holsters the new double-pistol next to the rest of his arsenal, "Excellent...I have a *few* weapons..." he smiles, standing and ready to jolt off.
Tacrun, still breathing heavy from all the running, answers "I think so, rekkhai...as ready as I will ever be, I guess.
"Let's move then." Donalh pauses again and notices someone's missing, "Hey, where's D`Tarik?" then taps a line open to find the Chief Medical officer's location.
D`Tarik's voice comes back through the com, "Sorry, I got kind of wrapped up in looking over the medical files for tr`Sorek. His files were almost impossible to get a look at, as if some-io was trying to keep them hidden...."
Tapping through to him again, Rhagarokk interrupts, "Are au coming, or should we start without au?"
"Au better start without me." D`Tarik answers after a slight pause, "I'm looking for this stuff, and me and Emni should be here incase any wounded are brought in."
That seemed just fine to Rylan who wanted to get a move on with it. Starting to walk off in the direction Rhagarokk's multicorder had zeroed in on, he mumbles almost to himself, "Sounds good to me...let's go."
Tacrun scratches his head and thought over the Leih's earlier words to him out loud. "Wait a second...Erien?" he turns to the Leih, "Rekkhai, what do au mean, I'm na a ...." he pauses for a second.
Donalh, finishing his conversation to D`Tarik taps once again, "Got it. Stay alert." and begins to head off, but turns to look at the engineer instead, "Au are an Erien now....consider it a field promotion. I'll do the paperwork once we nail this wort." then suddenly takes off into a run, "Follow me!"
Seeing the Leih zip past him, Rylan watches quietly for a second before he breaks out into a run as well. "Oh!" Tacrun says, standing on the hill a moment more, stunned, before he breaks out into a run behind the others.
After a mile, Rylan catches up with the Leih, the runs ahead. Pointing in the direction he was headed, he asks as he passes by, "This way, right?" Vyynd, who had started the run in a slow stride, begins to pass up the Leih and matches pace, his coat flapping behind him.
Rhagarokk nods at the question put to him while continuing to run, "Ie, east!" he sees Vyynd matching pace, and grins before pressing a button in his suit, causing him to speed up. A moment more, and Rylan sees the Leih coming quickly up, and grinning he starts running faster.
The poor engineer is trailing behind the others in their insane race, barely able to keep up. He calls out, "I don't know if I can keep up, Leih...I don' have the powa!"
Rhagarokk grins and slows down, "I swear, au engineers are all alike...." while Vyynd looks back at tr`Hunrok and smiles, then matches pace with the slower boy.
[Somewhere 3.2 miles East of the Encampments....]
An energetic walk and some time later, the crew arrives at the camp site. The 'camp' is set up right under a tree. There's a small place where it looks like a fire was. On the tree trunk facing the hearth for the fire, was a small collection of fingers and ears which look about a day old. tr`Sorek's been a busy little beaver indeed, as laying at the base of the tree are tools that looked to have been used to modify his disruptor and a cloaking device. Rhagarokk approaches the camp cautiously, as Vyynd looks around carefully as well, approaching closer to the tree. Tacrun hangs back a little, swallowing hard.
Rylan asks the others quietly, "Ah...any signs on a scanner?" he points at the equipment that had been left on the ground, with his pistol, "He wouldn't have just gone off and left these... right?" then peers up into the tree, trying to see if anyone's lurking in the branches.
Rhagarokk, who had begun his scans before the boy had spoken up, answered, "I do na detect him..."
"I wonder...." Tacrun says peering around, "Maybe he was waiting for us to leave the camp...." then trails off.
Donalh moves over to the camp and leans down to look at something more closely, "Here's his communicator...it's rigged to a relay device of some sort...."
Vyynd stands quietly for a moment, focusing his mind on the area, searching for the psychotic ripples anywhere nearby, as Tacrun gulps and finishes his sentence, "Or this is a trap...."
Not seeing anything in the tree, Rylan looks down at the ground, trying to find a trail of some sort.
"He's na nearby..." Vyynd announces, examining everything in the camp vicinity, "But he's na far either...."
Picking up the relay device, Rhagarokk says "Lesse if I can trace it back...."
The detectors that Vyynd had set up close around the villager encampment suddenly go off as Donalh's multicorder beeps, "He's at the village!"
"I knew it!" Tacrun says as his head turns to the sound of the detectors, "I knew he was just waiting for us to leave...I knew it!" he breaks off into a run towards the camp.
Vyynd immediately snaps to his isd, "Intrusion at the camp....." then nearly vanishes in a blur toward the camp, grass parting and flaying in his wake. Shouting over his ip to the security department as he does so, "All security, intruder...Seize him immediately! Be extremely cautious...try to incapacitate him from a distance if au can!"
"Ah, haenv..." Ry mutters before breaking into a run back to the camp. Rhagarokk in turn begins to head back towards the camp behind the others, pocketing the communicator and relay. After a time, he passes by Tacrun on his way.
[The Village]
As Vyynd sprints at incredible speeds, now nearing the camp, he whips out the pistol the Leih had given to him in one hand, and his rifle in the other; just as four small explosions - one in each corer of the village - go off. Running into the camp, jumping, flipping feet over his head, Vyynd lands on a big branch of a tree, scanning the camp for the main disturbance.
Heading into the camp well behind Vyynd, Rylan heads over to a crowd of screaming villagers to try and herd them out of harms way. In each corner of the camp fires now burn where the explosions had gone off before, though some of the flames were caused by shots from a heavily modified distruptor. Tr`Sorek's victims lay scattered about, the men either vaporized or dead with massive disruptor burns, the women decapitated or disemboweled. Rhagarokk looks around the carnage in horror, "Where is he?! Find him!" The village is a huge mass of chaos. Everyone is running around and screaming, unable to see the one who attacked them. After a time of herding the survivors to a safe, watched over area, Ry panics after seeing several mutilated women, and searches for Katara among the survivors.
Tacrun, who finally reaches the village behind them all, stands looking around in shock, "Fvadt!" After a second, he starts booking it towards the ship to see if there was anything there that he could do.
Vyynd whispers into his ip, "Report....anyone...where is he?!"
A random officer from the security ranks replies in a stressed tone, "We're working on it... but he's cloaked and is fvadt fast!"
"Hann`yyu..." Vyynd responds, sliding on a pair of goggles, now attuned to trace emissions from personal cloakers, continuing to look at the mass of people below him and the area around him to spot the assailant. "Imirrhlhhse....na cloaker emissions...." Vyynd curses, switching the goggles to different frequencies, trying to trace anything. "He's altered his cloaker, Elements smite this -raping wort!" he braces himself against the tree's trunk, attempting to keep track of all that is happening.
Rhagarokk, now standing on the top of the hill, tapping into his multicorder says to the person he was after, "Think au`rh clever, eh? Au forget, ninte Leih is a genius...." Moving into the village while scanning, Rhagarokk keeps his concentration on the multicorder, "Na chronitions...cleaver, but na clever enough...."
As Tacrun moves to try to get people away from the village, something moves by him, giving a slight slash to the engineer on his arm. A security officer near the entry way into the ship is disemboweled a second or two later. "Na, au don't!" Tacrun continues running towards the ship, hoping to catch up with the invisible-one.
Vyynd sees the officer attacked, but not the assailant, "Felirh ch`Susse-thrai!" he jumps down, running up to just barely catch the officer as he begins to fall, bleeding to death, his guts having already hit the ground, the entrails somehow looking not quite complete
Rhagarokk glances at his scanner, then activates his ip, "Anyon radiation!" he announces, "Every-io, head for the ship, he's in there!" Hearing the announcement, Ry gives up on trying to locate Katara for the moment, and runs off towards the ship.
Hearing this, Vyynd activates his own cloaker, disappearing into the ship after tr`Sorek. Opening a triple encrypted line to Rhagarokk, he whispers, "I'm cloaked...au'll be able to scan me normally, but na him...be careful..." As he enters the ship, he sees why the guards entrails hadn't looked quite right. tr`Sorek had cut some of them away as they spilled, and had decorated the walls of the corridor with them, but the maniac's nowhere to be found by the time the others reach the ship. Vyynd's mind lashes out, scratching every nerve center in his body, before his telepathy almost completely fades beneath the jumble of hate and anger now rampant in his mind.
[The Bar...]
The other three, Rhagarokk, Rylan and Tacrun had quickly ascended the ladder, and now stand in the bar. Tacrun stands holding onto his cut arm, "Fvadt! He got me...." The other two, so intent on finding tr`Sorek, don't seem to hear this.
Rhagarokk looks around, "Stay close, he can pick us off if we get separated....let's move!" he heads out the doors, into the bowels of the ship.
As the Leih steps out of the doors, the holoemitters in the bar flip on, and an over-sized hulking Romulan stands on the counter, a huge kaleh held in his hand; just as a forcefield comes up, trapping the other two in the bar, separated now from Rhagarokk. Rylan, who had stopped to take a glance at the Giant-Rihan on his way out the door, bounces off the forcefield. Rhagarokk turns, and hits the force field as well, "Fvadt..."
"Um..the tunnels, rekkhai!" Rylan says heading over towards the panel that would lead to the accesses tunnels, "We'll take the tunnel."
Rhagarokk yells through the forcefield, "Stay alert, and good luck!" then charges down the hall.
The hologram jumps at Rylan with a heavy swing of the sword. Out of instinct, Rylan jumps clear, then glares up at the hologram. Shaking the barrel of his pistol at it, Ry almost smirks as he warns, "Na-na-na! We've already been through this once! Don't make me call the Khensia!" then walks away from the hulking holo-Rihan in dismissal towards the tunnel-panel once more.
Tacrun tries to get to the tunnel entry-way, but trips and falls over one of the tables instead.
Picking up the engineer on the way, Ry helps him into the access tunnel, then climbs in after as the holo-Rihan behind them disappears.
[Elsewhere in the ship...]
Vyynd sends an isd message to his department personnel, "He's in the ship...with the senior crew. Seal it all off, maximum security precautions. Cut all power to the ship.
Aeris's voice comes back to him from the remote center, "Having trouble...the Morrhae`Vnu is accepting commands...we can seal it off manually, but the power wont' cut.
Whispering back as he still moves about the ship, Vyynd answers, "Ie...I'll attempt to, the harder way...hann`yyu. Stay safe..." Entering a random crew's quarters a moment later, Vyynd begins hacking through most of his own coding.
Rhagarokk - in another part of the ship altogether - moves to a computer console as well, "Computer, recognize voice authorization Rhagarokk Io Theta!"
"Access denighed...." the computer replies, then suddenly changes voices, "It will na be that easy.....rekkhai..."
Donalh growls back, "Au can't escape, Sorek! The ship is sealed off, au will never escape from security! I know ninte cloaking trick too! I invented that!"
Surprisingly, the computer voice changes once again, this time sounding a little more like the Daise`Dehno, and seems to answer it's own voice from before, "Oh ie, it *will* be that easy...rekkhai..."
Tr`Sorek's voice suddenly comes over Rhagarokk's com, "Who said my plan was to escape? Au will all pay!" then a second later as the computer had switched voices, adds almost-hysterically, "Au will stop it! All of au! STOP IT!!"
Vyynd's whisper comes through, high pitched, in mockery of the maniac, "Heeeeeerrrrre kitty-kitty-kitty...." then takes a moment to remember what Rhagarokk had said earlier, and switches his goggles to scan for Anyon radiation, then moves off again, heading for the security station.
Drawing his 'Holo-Killer' pistol, Rhagarokk continues to move around the halls cautiously, "We're closing in on au, Sorek! LOOK BEHIND AU!" After giving tr`Sorek something to worry about, the Leih once again flips out his multicorder and begins to scan. Through his ip he orders, "Ry and Tacrun....north end, deck 8!"
[The Tunnels...]
As Tacrun and Ry walk through the tunnels, running into one force-field barrier after another that seems to herd the pair in one direction only - towards the other end of the ship and away from Rhagarokk's last known location - the heat becomes first mildly discomforting and builds to unbearable. Groaning more then slightly annoyed at this, Rylan's voice comes through the ip, "Oh for Elements' sake! The wort's looking for BBQ RS and Engineer!! Some-io turn off the fvadt environmental controls!" then listens as the Leih told them to move to deck 8. Panicking a bit, Tacrun hears this and runs down the tunnel though the oven-like heat. "Tacrun, wait!" Rylan points towards the floor, "There's a ladder under here. We can get to deck 8 by that."
Running back as Rylan lifts the panel to reveal the ladder, the engineer asks, "Au sure we can get out this way?"
Instead of answering him, Ry addresses the Leih through the ip, "Hann`yyo, rekkhai..." he says stepping on the ladder, then slides down, "We're on our way there now." Then waits at the bottom for Tacrun who climbs on the ladder and starts down. Looking up at Tacrun on the ladder, Rylan answers the engineer's previous question with a smirk, "Au obviously spend more time reading the history books, then the ship's schematics." then curses as the lights suddenly go out, "...just great."
Tacrun reaches the bottom and waits for Ry to pull a glow-rod out of one of the Arrain's uniform pockets and snaps it. "I know...I know..." tr`Hunrok scratches his head a moment in thought, "It's weird we haven't heard from D`Tarik...I hope he's okay."
Ry shrugs at that, "I'd tap him, but he never answers anyway..." then heads off down the tunnel to the pre-ordered section of the ship, pistol still ready, Tacrun following along. Eventually, the pair find a suitable tunnel-panel, and Rylan throws the glow-rod away, letting his eyes get accustomed to darkness again, then opens the panel to step out into the corridor.
[Meanwhile....in another part of the ship....]
Moving into the security station, Vyynd accesses one of the consoles from a different position, attempting now to hack into the system from his own database. As he's working, he hears the Leih's order to him through the ip, "Vyynd, don't know where au are, but try and find a way to get to deck 8. We'll try to converge there...and it seems we're being lead there as well..."
Just as the forcefields suddenly come on, trapping Vyynd in the security station. The computer screens go black as all other power goes out, the blue glow from the forcefields the only light provided.
Vyynd laughs, "Oh, like au can trap me in my *own* security station!" he opens an air duct panel and climbs through those. Popping out, he then heads off to deck 8. Informing Rhagarokk on his way through the ip, "Well....he seems to have cut the power for us....". Climbing up, he sees something coming down the corridor he stood in, and with pistol aimed, he decloakes.....
[Meanwhile...another part of the ship altogether...]
Wiping the sweat from his brow, Rhagarokk moves along after telling the others to head off to deck 8, and hears over the ships com-system the panicked and insane voice of tr`Sorek, "It's all over now!! Au`rh going to find me! AHHHH!!!"
Removing Sorek's relay device from his coat, Donalh attaches it to a communicator and speaks into it, attempting to trick Sorek into thinking they have a different attack vector. "Ry and Tac, move to Deck 7; Vyynd, deck 8 east side...." Without warning, the power to the whole ship shuts down, and Rhagarokk takes a moment to look around himself, "Lovely...." he mumbles, clicking on night vision before continuing to move. He finds and forces open the lift shaft and climbs in. A moment latter he hops out of the shaft on deck 8 and, hearing Vyynd's report of power-loss, answers back through the ip, "Ie..." as he walks down the corridor.
Rhagarokk sees a shimmer ahead of him. A half-second later and Vyynd stands there, the pistol still aimed at the Leih. "Fvadt..." the Daise`Dehno says, lowering the weapon slightly, "I was ready to fire..."
Out of nowhere, tr`Sorek comes running towards Rhagarokk, butt-naked with only his boots on, and holding a force-chainsaw, swinging it wildly and yelling "I'M THE GOD!! AU WILL FEEL MY PAY!! PAY!! *PAY*!! NA!! I'M FOREVER! I RULE ALL!! OGA OGA BOOGA!! CAH!! CHOP CHOP!!!"
Leaping backwards, Rhagarokk tries to draw his kaleh to defend himself, once again surprised it's not there, "VYYND!"
Vyynd tossed over his own still-sheathed kaleh to the Leih and draws the double pistol and rifle on the insane Rihan, and throws bolts of fire towards the attacker, only stopping as a ceiling panel fell unexpectedly on top of the killer, DT sitting on top of it. From under the panel a blood starts to form a small pool. "Jolan`tru everybody!" DT looks up at them
Stepping out from the now open access tunnel panel, Rylan sees the spectical ahead and grins at Tacrun as the engineer steps into the corridor. "Looks like we're late...should've slid down the ladder like I did, na climb..." then walks up to the little group that's gathered, Tacrun following cautiously.
Vyynd runs up to DT and the pressed killer, as Rhagarokk - kaleh in hand - kicks DT and the panel out of the way as he unsheathes the weapon, then holds the blade against the killer's throat. Vyynd pulls out another katana from Elements only knew where, and stands poised, ready to strike, barely looking at the Leih out of the corner of an eye. The blood comes from a gashing wound in tr`Sorek's skull where it had cracked open. Continuing to hold the sword above the killer, Rhagarokk orders quietly, "DT...check him"
Rylan only shrugs at that, "Can we kill him now, rekkhai?"
Vyynd, in apparent agreement, says, "Na...let's kill him...hnah."
"Ie," the engineer agrees, "Just do it and get it over with."
Sheathing the sword, Rhagarokk turns, "Do it, leave the body intact."
"I'm pretty sure he's dead guys...." DT looks up at the others.
Vyynd doesn't apparently care, as he answers the Leih with a sigh, "Ie, rekkhai...." Vyynd's sword flies forward, piercing clean through the killer's head. Wiping his blade clean on the body, he walks up behind the Leih.
"Take note...." DT says to himself, "Cause of death of tr`Sorek....heart attack."
Shaking a bit, Tacrun asks, "Is it finally over?"
Over the com, Rhagarokk announces, "All clear...the killer is dead."
Aeris's voice comes back with, "Good...but rekkhai? Little bit of a problem..."
"What is it?"
Hesitantly, she replies, "T`Rehu....the young one....tr`Sorek got her...."
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